This article co-authored with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, examines the distinct and complementary roles practice facilitators and care managers play in redesigning and improving primary care delivery. Practice facilitators coordinate practice quality improvement and redesign...

This report presents findings from the Girls Shape the Future study, which was designed to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of the Girls Incorporated® Will Power/Won’t Power® curriculum developed to reduce sexual intercourse, pregnancy, and sexually transmitted infections...

This paper offers policymakers and researchers insights into opportunities to engage patients and families in the medical home. It presents a framework for conceptualizing opportunities for engagement, reviews the evidence base for these activities, describes examples of existing efforts,...

This brief offers strategies for decision makers for the patient-centered medical home to respond to and reflect the goals, preferences, and needs of patients and their families. Patients' involvement in the medical home should take place on three levels: (1) engagement in their own care, (2)...

Evaluations of the patient-centered medical home, a model that redesigns primary care, should account for clustering of patients within practices. This paper describes why and how to do this, and what samples of patients and practices are needed for studies to achieve adequate statistical power.